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A cold northwesterly to westerly wind over all the Great Lakes created the lake-effect snowfall of January 10, 2022. Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer lake water. The lower layer of air, heated by the lake water, picks up water vapor from the lake and ...
What is lake-effect snow? Lake-effect snow is no rare thing in the regions surrounding the Great Lakes.It falls when cold air from Canada moves across the Great Lakes, forming clouds that can ...
Some highly prone areas for road closures with the upcoming lake-effect event include Interstate 81 from Syracuse to near Watertown, New York, Interstate 90 in western New York and northeast Ohio ...
1624891. The St. Joseph River (known locally as the St. Joe) is a tributary of Lake Michigan with a length of 210 miles (340 km). The river flows in a generally westerly direction through southern Michigan and northern Indiana, United States, before emptying into Lake Michigan. The St. Joseph River drainage basin covers 4,685 square miles ...
Isle Royale National Park is an American national park consisting of Isle Royale, along with more than 400 small adjacent islands and the surrounding waters of Lake Superior, in the state of Michigan . Isle Royale is 45 mi (72 km) long and 9 mi (14 km) wide, with an area of 206.73 sq mi (535.4 km 2 ), making it the fourth-largest lake island in ...
Several rounds of lake-effect snow blasted western New York from last weekend into earlier this week, dropping as much as 75 inches of snow over a multiday period in the Southtowns of Buffalo ...
Michigan faces freezing temperatures and continued snowfall Sunday amid a severe winter storm this weekend. Temperatures to single digits in some regions of the state Sunday, with some lake effect ...
Coordinates: 42°2′55″N. Portage Lake is a 510-acre lake located near Mendon in the Michigan county of St. Joseph. [1] A glacial-origin lake, it is fed and drained by the Portage River. The lake is variously reported as 37 feet and as 60 feet in maximum depth. [2] [3] The lake was surveyed by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in ...